Upcoming Book Rips Dan Rather

NewsMax ^ | 6 June 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Aussie Dasher]

Morley Safer was no friend of Dan Rather when the two worked together on CBS’ "60 Minutes,” according to a new unauthorized bio of Rather.

In the book "Lone Star” – due out in September – author Alan Weisman writes that Safer "has not been a friend of Rather’s for years, since their days in Vietnam.”

The animosity dates back to when Rather replaced Safer soon after Safer’s report about a platoon of Marines burning a Vietnamese village.

"When Rather replaced me . . . he went to a group of Marines and said, ‘If I were you guys, I would have shot him.’ Or words to that effect,” Safer told Weisman. "And that my report should never have gone on their air.”

Asked if Rather had dumped on Safer to curry favor with the Marines, Safer told Weisman: "Who the hell knows why?”

Safer isn’t the only CBS staffer to rip Rather in the biography, according to a report on the book in the New York Post.

Co-workers took Rather to task for his critical report on George Bush’s service with the Air National Guard.

"In my opinion he was guilty of journalistic malpractice,” former CBS News president Ed Joyce told Weisman.

"To go out on a limb with that sort of thin sourcing and then, when you get caught, go on the ‘CBS Evenings News’ defending it in such an arrogant fashion was wrong.”

[Aussie Dasher]

Sounds like a 'must read'!

[Sonny M]

Sounds like a book that is looking to make money by preaching to the choir and the author wants to get paid for it.

[Aussie Dasher]

Probably...but still a good read!

[Popman]

Dan Rather "sins" are about to be exposed in book after book

There is a God.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Dan who...?

[martin_fierro]

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[bilhosty]

we will be kicking this scum around for years. CBS, I predict though will have another Dan Rather experience from Katie Couric and we will be kicking her around for the rest of her life as well.

[digger48]

[Xenalyte]

Those crazy kids! Staying up all night watching Safer and Wallace and Rather. They're all rebels, I tell you, and they will never ever be any good.

[rod1]

Morely needs to write his own book about his relationship with Dan titled.... "Better Safer than Sorry"

[martin_fierro]

What teen-agers watch -- and why

It's that hepcat Ed Bradley and his bitchin' ear stud.

[Liz]

I am shocked, Shocked to to hear negative things about Dan (/end Claude Rains impersonation).

[Xenalyte]

Damn kids, with their whistle tips and their ugly dogs and their see-through skirts. What will they think of next?

[SkyPilot]

"In my opinion he was guilty of journalistic malpractice,” former CBS News president Ed Joyce told Weisman.

Then where the hell have these self-proclaimed "giants of the news business" been for the last 20 years?

Organizations like the Media Research Center have been chronicling Rather's abusive, weird, delusional, and outright unprofessional behavior and actions for years.

Type in "Dan Rather" into their search engine and you get 2,133 documented instances of Rather's incredible bias and out of control behavior.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/mainsearch/search.html

[WorkingClassFilth]

...where the hell have these self-proclaimed "giants of the news business" been for the last 20 years?

Right behind him every step of the way as he led the pack. When Danny has took a bullet and was forced out, he became their shield and they honored his mighty journalism. Now when he's dead meat, they'll turn on him and finish him off. Their next act, of course, is to proclaim the beast dead, justice served and that they're the new champions of truth.

[PGalt]

LOL! Very talented. Thanks. LOL!

[JoeSixPack1]

Phil Specter just gave you a high five! :-)

[Xenalyte]

I'd return the favor, but I'm trying to stay out of reach of his hair for fear it will eat me.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the ping. This is a very special Schadenfrueude to be enjoyed with a nice Chianti.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.